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On Thursday, the U.S. Supreme Court heard oral argument in the case of Trump v. CASA, Inc. Though the case arises out of President Donald Trump's January executive order on birthright citizenship and the 14th Amendment, Thursday's oral argument had very little to do with the hotly contested substantive issue of whether the children of illegal ...Read more

"We got so screwed by Biden, as a party," former Obama adviser David Plouffe is quoted saying in a New Yorker excerpt from Jake Tapper and Alex Thompson's new book, "Original Sin: President Biden's Decline, Its Cover-Up, and His Disastrous Choice to Run Again."

The supposition of the piece, headlined "How Joe Biden Handed the Presidency to ...Read more

CNN's Kasie Hunt interviewed Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer the other day. She confronted him about allegations of a meeting with former President Joe Biden that should have raised alarms about Biden's fitness for office. "We're moving forward," Schumer replied. He would not answer the question.

Chuck Todd, speaking afterwards on CNN, ...Read more

Mississippi leads the nation. That's not a typographical error. And it's not just a gotcha phrase, preparing the reader for learning that Mississippi leads the nation on all sorts of negative things.

Once upon a time, that was true, and in some respects it still is. Mississippi has the lowest or nearly the lowest income levels of any state.

It...Read more

I hope Trump pushes forward on tariffs. Hear me out.

He has already backtracked faster than a hiker who spies a rattlesnake. Trump spent the first weeks of his second term spitting out tariff rates in a twitchy staccato. On Feb. 1, he announced 25% tariffs on imports from Mexico and Canada (along with a 10% tax on goods from China) supposedly ...Read more

The first excerpts of the Jake Tapper-Alex Thompson book on denying former President Joe Biden's obvious mental decline have been posted, and you can already sense Democrats don't want to deal with what they have done.

The book's title is "Original Sin." Why the biblical title? The authors write: "The original sin of Election 2024 was Biden's ...Read more

President Donald Trump gave an important speech in Riyadh that may come as close to outlining a "Trump doctrine" as we'll probably see. It was a direct counterpoint to George W. Bush's second inaugural address. The simplistic way to put it is that what liberty was for Bush, money is to Donald Trump.

That's not quite right, though. The speech ...Read more

SAN DIEGO -- Racists take care of their own. And so naturally, President Donald Trump is offering affirmative action to Afrikaners.

Recently, the Trump administration put out the red carpet to welcome into the United States several dozen white South African refugees. In response, Black and brown migrants who are turned away at the U.S.-Mexico...Read more

What if the writ of habeas corpus has been guaranteed to the British since 1215 and to Americans since 1789? What if this encompasses the right of every person who is confined by the government against his or her will to compel the jailer to justify the confinement before a neutral judge?

What if this right is personal and individual and ...Read more

Artificial intelligence has been around for longer than most of us realize. In 1950, Alan Turing proposed the famous "Turing test" in a paper, opening with the sentence "I propose to consider the question, 'Can machines think?'" His test, which he called the "imitation game," was a very simple one. There are three participants: a human judge, ...Read more

If you voted for Donald Trump last November because you believed he'd increase economic freedom, it's safe to say you were fooled. Following a reckless tariff barrage, the White House and its allies are preparing a new wave of tax-code gimmickry that has more in common with progressive social engineering than pro-growth reform. And don't ...Read more

The past few days have showcased a whirlwind of success for President Donald Trump.

On May 10, India and Pakistan agreed to an immediate ceasefire, which Trump praised on social media as a consequence of "common sense and great intelligence" by representatives from both sides, while acknowledging that a more lasting peace remains a delicate ...Read more

WASHINGTON -- President Donald Trump started the first major international travel of his second term in Riyadh, where he publicly bonded with Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman. Pundits call the crown prince, the nation's de facto leader, MBS. Trump calls him "Mohammed."

Trump used the moment to call on the kingdom to join the Abraham ...Read more

The relationship between the United States and Israel is usually seen as "special" because of technical matters.

Israel is the only democracy in the Middle East. Israel and the U.S. share vitally important intelligence and technology.

But what about shared values?

Shortly after America's new ambassador to Israel, Mike Huckabee, arrived at ...Read more

Commerce Over Chaos!

That's Donald Trump's MidEast strategy expressed as a peace and prosperity sound bite.

Will the sound bite bumperstick in reality?

Historical hint it might: ARAMCO: Arabian-American Oil Company (now Saudi ARAMCO, but, as Shakespeare asked, what's in a name?).

ARAMCO's a wealth and energy-producing historical stick that...Read more

A left-wing legal group with the misleading name Democracy Forward is proving to be the biggest obstacle to translating President Donald Trump's massive election victory into real change.

The group's mission is to thwart the decisions of the 77 million voters who supported Trump for president.

It sues the Trump administration repeatedly, ...Read more

Last month, President Donald Trump proudly announced, "Liberation Day! The day American industry was reborn!" Reborn because of his tariffs, which he called, "the most beautiful word in the dictionary." This is just wrong. The first time he was president, Trump raised tariffs on steel. That helped American steelmakers. They hired 1,000 more ...Read more

When Pope Leo XIV addressed the College of Cardinals two days after he was elected to the papacy, he explained why he took the name that he did.

"Sensing myself called to continue in this same path, I chose to take the name Leo XIV," he said. "There are different reasons for this, but mainly because Pope Leo XIII in his historic Encyclical ...Read more